I am personally disgusted with this whole situation. If you guys had an offer at American, you would send it out and let the membership decide.
You would cry a river Nut Driver, hell you can't even fight for 5 years against the company pay freeze (with a intact contract) without whining like a beech and demanding a concessionary T/A so you can vote yes and get your pay raise. I choose to fight instead of quit, nobody thought a TWu bankruptcy contract would last this long, 15 years is a new record. Although many have quit, some like me are just hard headed.
You have all the answers Nut Driver, I also don't answer to your demands. Seems to me your weak and ineffective, your Reamsters got ousted and you can't handle it. It's a good thing the rest of the SWA AMTs are not like you.
I really don't care they got kicked out. What I care about is if you only get so much then admit that. Heck our national director Brett came from American, and was pretty high up in the TWU, so it's not like this was first time to negotiate a contract, he obviously got fed up at American Airlines left and got a job as a mechanic in Dallas at SWA, has a successful concrete business. And next thing you know he is the National Director of AMFA. So if he can make a change in his life, and leave.Sounds like as angry as you are at American management and the Association that is obviously not going anywhere, maybe you should have followed in his footsteps. United was sold out by the IAM , replaced them with AMFA, got mad because they couldn't get section 6 ,done to their satisfaction. Then brought the Teamsters in, they have a new contract, some are happy, some aren't. United Airlines mistake was they let the same people that were running the IAM at United , voted them back into to run the Teamsters operation. It's not about fighting SWA management that upsets me. It's the fact that we are using a play book that doesn't have much effect. So maybe with the ETOPS we have something. The only problem with AIR21 cases now, the feds are frowning on the ETOPS program, and I never demanded anything of you, I just ask why you stayed?
Swamt, I said the TWu leadership has hired SSMP, and Dippy Dave the ramper won't engage me because he can't handle the truth, he'd rather be a coward and insult from a distance, nothing new. We have been dealing with outsiders butting in AMT business for years, truckers, rampers you name it. So here it is that will prove what I said is correct. Dippy Dave needs to stay in his lane or find a ramper support group to deal with his AMFA hate issues.
Well with a Air21 complaint and lawsuit, I would see why the TWU would hire SSMP, he is good at those kinds of litigation. That lawfirm outside of legal counsel for AMFA makes its bread and butter off of Air21 complaints. If you want to sue someone for medical malpractice, you hire a lawfirm that has an excellent track record of winning those kinds of cases. The TWU attorneys are labor law attorneys, but Seham is a labor lawyer, but his real expertise is Air21.
What do mean by that? I don't recall Bret ever being an elected official in the TWU but was active in the AMFA drives at AA.
AIR21 cases are not SSMP "bread and butter" on cases they handle, I would surmise those cases are a very small part. You obviously don't know about all the work or the other entities SSMP represents outside of aviation.
I was giving the guy credit if you go to The lawfirm web site he has a video explaining all about Air21 lawsuits and complaints. Obviously your TWU ,that you personally trash all the time, had to hire his expertise to persue the case against American, your just an negative asshole that wants to argue. And as far as Brett you don't put a guy in charge of a Union, with no union leadership experience. I respect the man for what he has accomplished and achieved. What have you done besides complain about your lot in life , and refuse to go somewhere it is better. I have worked with people like you that do nothing but whine and complain about how the company sucks.
I had a friend of mine from United , after United listen to the Teamsters about section 6, and kicked AMFA out, how he was American and was behind the AMFA drive, because of the TWU crap. This person knows Brett personally , he,s a good guy.
He was your Union Safety committee chairman and investigator for 8 years at American. I respect the man, do you? Like I said he wasn't just a shop steward. He obviously didn't get enough support for AMFA at American, and he left.
I do rather enjoy how when you get caught in your lies and half-truths, you go back and try to quantify what you said. I'm the whiner and complainer? You can't even take a 5 year pay freeze without getting the floor wet from your tears about your money or getting a concessionary T/A to vote yes on. You have degraded SSMP for months here, and then you give them credit when I prove that the TWu has in fact hired them for legal work. I guess your buddy Dippy Dave has disappeared too. Wonder why?
There were many guys behind the AMFA drives, not just Brett. I don't care who you know or what you think of who. Unfortunately, the fight has come to SWA, and your not up for it. It's a good thing most of the AMFA membership doesn't think like you, bringing back a concessionary T/A is not a good game plan. That is what industrial unions do, and it's never good.
